Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-06
DAILY HERALD.
TEMPLE OF MUSIC.
Musical and Art Center of
California.
TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE AND ART.
The Home of the Muses. Trans
fprled from Greece to Los
Angeles County.


Possessed beyond the muses. painting
BY turns they felt the glowing mind
Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined
The picture of this musical center wa
drawn by Collins many years ago, an
he long since joined the majority befor
Los Angeles was known to history
Since that sweet singer left the scene 0
operation the musical center has followe,
the star Of empire and moved westwar'
to the Pacific shore. In Los Angelo
county the new field aud center of SOM
has been found and established, and th'
temples of the muses. are being con
s.ructed.
While the city has become ornam emit
ed with musical temple. ornate and
beautiful, that has attracted artistes
and queens OF song, and masters OF the
passions in comedy and tragedy, ii has
been reserved for Pasadena to build the
finest and best opera house on the Pacif-
ic coast. The HERALD has been the
only journal that has been behind the
scenes and knew that such musical
temple was to be built. From time to
time an item has appeared in these col
umns, stating that such a structure
would arise but the plan aud proprie-
tors have not been before stated IL is
now the privilege OF this journal to
state that the finest and most complete
appointed orera house in California, is
TO be constructed short distance north
Of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, on
the corner of Raymond Avenue aud
Bellevue Drive. The situation is in
comparable 1t will stand between the
present Atchison, Topeka aud Santa Fd
Railroad track ard the irsck now being
constructed by ihe Pasadena and Alta.
deua railway, which is suppos d to b. the
Southern Pacific Company and short
distance north of the junction Of the
main trunk line Of the A., T. & s. f.
with the present line of that road. The
street railway now in operation from the
Raymond TO North Pasadena is near the
site as is also the street car line to
Olivewood.
A CABLE RAILROAD.
A franchise has been granted 10 f. C.
Webster aud others, in which MIR. Ray
moud is interested, with capital Of
$780, 600 to construct Q cable railway
from the Raymond to the business cen
ter of Pasadena, passing near the opera
house. The opera house company has
donated 500, 900 in land for depot TO
the A., I. & s. +. Railroad Company
adjacent to the new structure, and a
large and ornamental depot, the finest
in Southern California, costing $25, 600,
will be erected thereon. This will be
the great Union depot of Pasadena in.
stead Of the little inconvenient stations
low in use in the central part of the
city, all of which will be abolished.
The company has also spent $l5, 600 to
widen Raymond avenue from Colorado
street TO the Raymond to eighty
feet in width, and has CON
trac.ed to have laid 5000 linear
feet OF cemsnt sidewalk ten feet in width
to be placed on each side of the avenue.
The Ward Brothers gave the right of
way for the new railway 10 Altadena
through the Julia K. Ward Homestead
tract on which the opera house will be
built.
PASADENA GRAND OPERA HOUSE co.
The Opera Company has been incor.
porated with capital stock OF 500, 600,
all of which has been subscribed, and
ten per ceut paid in. The directors con.
sist OF Hon. l.. j. Rose. Z. c. Webster,
r.. NJ Furlong, II. w. O'Melveny,
Frank Nj. Ward, Ben f. Ward and
Walter h. E Ward; and the officers Of:
Z. C. Webster, Presidents; l.. j. Rose,
Vice-President; Frank M. Ward, Treas
urer and Walter X. Il. Ward, Secretary.
These gentlemen are recognized as en-
ergeiic, enterprising citizens who carry
out all they undertake. Mr.. Frank
M. Ward has long had the idea Of con-
structing grand musical tenn
pie in Pasadena and last year went to
Europe TO inspect the music balls of
that country and also of Great Britain.
When the HERALD states that
COL. A. NJ. HALL.
Has prepared the plans for the new
edifice it is unnecessary to say that they
will be the finest that art, science and
wealth can produce. The building will
be of brick in the center of a lot look
lSO feet, and will occupy frontage of
rs feet, fanked by a two-story building
on each side, one to be built by K. q.
Webster and the other by Ward Broth.
ers, so as to harmonic with the main
edifice in architecture. DIR. Green, the
New Jersey millionaire of "August
Flower" fame, has already engaged to
lease the Webster building for series
of years, for his Pacific Coast office.
The bricks are now being made for the
building, which will absorb about
1000, 600 of those valuable articles. The
great building will have wings in the
rear which will be fitted up as dressing,
refreshment,. bath and consultation
rooms. These will be large and the best
appointed in the State, free from the in
conveniences that now prevail in other
opera houses. The front will be Oi
terra Gotta, of the
MOORISH STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE,
With three towers and miuarets gilded
and lofty. 1t will have the finest facade
of any opera house west OF the Mlss's'
sippi river.
The center dome. and will be 80 feet
high, and the two corner domes 70 feet
in height, with heavy gildings. The en-
trance viii be Is feet in width, and al
the corridor ceilings will be cast in de-
sigus for the highest purposes OF orna-
ment. There will be five stores on thu
ground floor, and Offices and art room
in the second story. The means 0
egress will be ample. In addition t.
the front passageway, there will b
ample provision for egress on both side
of the stage, making three large an'
independent means of escape IN cas-
of n ,csssity, so that the audience coul'
leave the building in q few moments
The gallery will be suspended from
truss hidden beneath doome ceiling g
that no posts will interfere with tn
view of any spectators, and so elevate
that persons In the rear Of the QUITE
circle can have complete view OF tn
audience and the stage. The system Q
ventilation will be thorough and 8
located in the heavy Moorish ornamer
tations as to bs unobserved. Instead {
a central aisle with long rows OF seats 0
each side, difficult OF access, there wi
be two aisles radiating obliquely from th
orchastra so that all seats will be easil